Introduction

[tsvstani]

As requested here is a brief introduction on myself. I am a linguist 
living in Florida, and a Cherokee Indian. I have an extensive 
background in Germanic linguistics as well as other language. I am 
currently working to revitalize my language, Cherokee, which luckily 
has not suffered the same fate as Gothic. I think it would be quite 
cool to create a modern version of the language, this actually would 
not be that hard. We can use other Germanic languages to help coin 
new words, since many of them have the same roots as Gothic 
underlying a number of modern concepts. For example in German, one 
of the words for telephone is 'Fernsprecher', 'that which speaks 
far'. We could do something similar with Gothic to create a word for 
telephone. Just an idea. I am currently working to compile all known 
Gothic terms into a dictionary to be published in pdf document. 
Unlike other dictionaries, words in this dictionary will actually be 
listed IN THE GOTHIC alphabet, instead of transliterated. I dont get 
why people do that. We have the same problem in Cherokee, where 
people often do not even write the word in the Cherokee writing 
system (a syllabary), but just give the transliteration in Latin 
letters. I find this very annoying to say the least.


Fraternally,

Gotlvnvvsgi 
(Justin L Smith)







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